Diana Wynne Jones

Deep Secret

Christine

i am having SUCH a time. i love love love dwj so much it's a little wild lol
this is no HMC and no chrestomanci. i would hesitate to call it a middle grade novel by any means solely bc of some of the things in here. but by GOD if it isn't dwj!!! it's not her best work maybe but i was just sitting there like "YEP this is definitely dwj!" and i am still bewildered by Certain Events but it is how it be. every single moment in the last few chapters was whiplash after whiplash im surprised my neck is still on. im so glad my roommate left the room right before i got to the babylon part because everything after that was me making concerning faces and talking aloud to myself 
anyway like, what the HECK!! cant believe this all happened during a SF/F FAN CONVENTION!! actually nvm i can in fact believe that that was the most believable part of the book tbh. sounds about right. i think the single most insane reveal was Zwhatsherface in the end bc i was like LMAO UH OH it was so leftfield and unrelated but concerning. also, Andrew. because Of Course. everything else was just like FASTPACED INSANITY BREATHING ROOM WHO LOL?? ??/ 
i genuinely think the centaur stitching up part was more intense than any fight scene in any fantasy novel. I was so deeply stressed just reading that. 
but of course, Babylon. yep. bc nursery rhymes do be like htat. 
not terribly sure what i completely think of most of th echaracters bc i can NEVER pin down dwj's characters just because they are Like That and that is the whole deal about them. however i did like them and their selfish stubbornness... all of them. i did really want to punch rupert several times. the whole brothers-as-magids thing was extremely funny tbh i love sibling dynamics in stories. dwj's romances are always so There but not Actually in which i pretty much know exactly who is with who but everytime im like how is this going to happen??? and thne it does and im like HA!!! dwj strikes again!!! (hmc taught me well) (i love punctuation marks sometimes im 11 and not 19 again)

anyway i really REALLY do have to do homework but it is not getting done bc i'm thinking about reading the other magids book now loolllll i really have got to go do my readings for next week i didn't have friday or yesterday to do it bc of home show and i chose to read this wheni woke up today (very late bc of how incredibly sleep deprived i am) instead of my hoemwork thumbsup... gotta go back down to the barn in a couple hours AGAIN too and it's RAINING!!

Sarah Escorsa

This was an entertaining enough read but not the comic fantasy book I expected. I liked the storyline but its development felt a bit tedious and wasn't as funny as I thought it would be.

Oliver Magnanimous

Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables' mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on earth he has to find a replacement while also trying to find the lost heir of a collapsing empire, worlds away. Rupert interweaves the fate lines to get all the candidates together at a sci-fi fantasy convention, and havoc ensues as they all converge on a very strange hotel, where everything is always linked, the walls keep moving, people are trying to kill him, and nothing is as it seems...a magical, epic story from the Godmother of fantasy.

Dennis Jacob Rosenfeld

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Zoey Mikalatos

All over the multiverse the Magids, powerful magicians, are at work to maintain the balance between positive and negative magic, for the good of all. Rupert Venables is the junior Magid assigned to Earth and to the troublesome planets of the Koyrfonic Empire. When the Emperor dies without a known heir, Rupert is called into service to help prevent the descent of the Empire into chaos. At the same time, the senior Magid on Earth dies, making Rupert a new senior desperately in need of a junior. Rupert thinks his problems are partially solved when he discovers he can meet all five of the potential Magids on Earth by attending one SF convention in England. However, the convention hotel sits on a node, a nexus of the universes. Rupert soon finds that other forces, some of them completely out of control, are there too.... Diana Wynne Jones' Deep Secret is classic adult fantasy novel by an award-winning author, back in print

Deep Secret

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